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Iranian students protest U.N. sanctions against Tehran's nuclear program.
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If Iran is lying about nukes, what should the U.S. do?
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it confronted Iran for the first time with Western intelligence reports showing work linked to making atomic bombs and that Tehran had failed to provide satisfactory answers. The new information could spur more international sanctions against the mullahs. So far, though, existing sanctions have done little to undermine Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Are stronger sanctions the way to go? Should the United States take a different tack: face-to-face negotiations? Or should America prepare to use force to prevent Iran from acquiring a working atom bomb?
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Appeasement
Submitted on February 27th, 2008 by ScottWithout trying to determine what should be done or how Iran should be handled, I think a comparative history lesson might be useful.
Throughout the 1930s the powers of Europe, specifically the British and French, appeased Adolf Hitler believing he would be satisfied with re-incorporating the German people into the German nation and with repealing the obviously flawed Versailles treaty. Unfortunately, they also failed to heed the warnings contained in Mein Kampf, warnings that detailed Lebensraum (living space) to the East and the annihilation of the Jews and Slavic people who inhabited those regions.
And today, the leaders of the world try to reason with Ahmadinejad's rhetoric and Iran's actions believing that nuclear pursuits are for electricity, rockets are for space, and "Israel wiped off the face of the earth" is just an exaggeration.
It is cliche perhaps, but those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
iran nukes
Submitted on February 24th, 2008 by jeyuhasHow many chances do you give a kid to stop before a punishment is handed down? Enough is enough already. 20 years of you better stop that, when they have already declared that the real holocost is yet to come. I am so sick of everyone in this world F--king with us. Let them all ask themselves one question "What if there was no USA?" Now, answer it honestly.
The Way To Neutralize The Iranian Threat
Submitted on February 23rd, 2008 by Chuck_JohnsonGrow the middle class by eliminating the crippling sanctions. Stop trying to divest from Iran.
When the people are enrichened, they will topple their own governments. Notice what happened in the Cold War. No government can keep the rich down.